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Disability and Organ Transplants | Albany News
New York’s decade-long push to ban disability-based transplant discrimination is finally gaining momentum, with bipartisan support and a human urgency that can’t be ignored. Despite repeated failed attempts since 2017, the Organ Donation Fairness Act now sits in committee — backed by a Republican father of a child with Down syndrome and a Democratic disability advocate — ready to end blanket exclusions unless medically justified. Meanwhile, a federal version inches closer to passage, offering hope that both levels of government can work together to ensure fairness when lives hang in the…
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